TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a music discovery app “TikTok Music,” a service that will allow users to purchase, play, share, and download music. The users will also be able to create, share, and recommend playlists, comment on music, and live stream audio and video.
ByteDance already has experience with music streaming with Resso. Resso had a 40 million user base across India, Brazil, and Indonesia as of November 2021. The company’s monthly active users in India grew by 304 percent between January 2021 to January 2022, compared to which Spotify’s users grew by 38 percent in the same period.
ByteDance filed the trademark application in the US, in May, and also in Australia last November.
